Domaine Jean Guiton

This domaine has quite a recent history, setting himself up with 2 hectares of vines in 1975 and building a cuverie and cellars shortly afterwards. Over the next ten years, he built up his holdings to around 10 hectares so that he had quickly outgrown his winemaking space. To keep the momentum flowing, he built himself new appropriately sized temperature-controlled cellars and cuverie. Finally, he could relax and focus on making the best wines possible. He could rest even more when his son, Guillaume, joined him in 1998 and took full control seven years later in 2005. Guillaume’s now 12-hectare domaine is planted predominantly to Pinot and everything is destemmed. Levels of new oak are kept very sensible and rarely exceed 25%, whilst extraction is also gently handled. Stylistically, the wines tend to be fresh and pure with earthy, red fruit undertones, typical of Côte de Beaune Pinots. The whole range offers consistently great value, and it would be hard to beat the Bourgogne Côte d’Or on a pound for pound basis.